THE STORY OF A MOTHER FROG MOUTH
I have been a week or so hatching my eggs on the tree in front of the kitchen in Tanjung Harapan post. I saw people many times looked at me. I bet they know me from the cook who works there everyday and she told everybody about me. In one morning to a short guy with a funny voice, I guess he must be an orangutan keeper. I see him carrying bananas, papayas, or other fruits every morning, the next morning to another people until the whole post knew about me. I heard a girl calling me “ugly face” and laughed at me when talking to the others about me. I remember she tried to take picture of me but I was away up too high for her camera. Ha.. It made me want to laugh.. Another morning the cook told a girl who always carried a baby orangutan on her arms, and she couldn’t believe that I am a bird, ugh.. Do I look that ugly..? She even shook the tree to see that I was alive, she thought that I am a branch because my colour is similar with the wood. I moved my head, then she believed that I am a bird. Offcourse I moved, I was surprised to know how strong she was for her size.
I am not angry at all, I rather enjoyed watching them doing their activities down there. Every morning the guys sweeping the ground around the post with a broom made from small branches, later in the afternoon the old guy napping on the shelter, babies moving around with their mothers, but they were different babies, the other baby with no hairy body, in the late afternoon I often heard them yelling from the field, they were playing volley, including the girl who called me ugly face.
One afternoon I saw monkeys around the but I didn’t think that I was so unlucky to deal with the naughties one, he came to my nest to and took my eggs. I flew frightened and drop my nest on the ground while the naughty monkey eat the eggs. I was so sad, later I saw the girl who called me ugly face crying to know what happened to me, she picked up my nest and took it in her hands, she was impressed to feel the nest, it was soft and wonderfully made she murmured, and later she told me she would keep it as a treasure. A little comfort for me to hear that.
Ok I will fly away now, my life should go on and I will come back again one day to lay my eggs here and watch u and your group again.
Check the album, my photo is there, …..with my baby.
